| No. in Admissions Register: | 347 |
| Date of admission: | 4 January 1867 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | Moles on left wrist |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Not |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | Not since infancy |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 2d |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 14 December 1866 |
| Where convicted: | Wolverhampton before I Spooner |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | George White |
| Occupation: | Cabman |
| Residence: | Tower Street, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | Ellen White |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Honest but drunken |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest and sober. Health good |
| Parents' wages: | Said to be 12s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week. Has seven other children |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Captain Segrave, Wolverhampton |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J C Ward |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
19 December 1866 There is a report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 19 December 1866 p.5 col.3: COMMITTAL TO A REFORMATORY.-George White 11 years of age. was charged with stealing 2d. from a till in a shop occupied by Sarah Clarke, news agent, Snow Hill. It appeared that the prisoner had only a week previous been brought before the Stipendiary Magistrate on a similar charge, but in consequence of his youth, and his promise never to steal again, was discharged with a caution. On the following Thursday, however, he was noticed by a young woman, named Priscilla Leadbeater, deliberately walk into the shop of the prosecutrix, and take something from the till behind the counter. She prevented him leaving, and called to Mrs. Clarke, who took 2d.. which he had stolen, from his boot. He was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment, and at the expiration of that time to be sent to a Reformatory for five years.
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